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Ask HN: What Are Alternatives to the Internet?
I’m referring to the internet that most people would be thinking about: websites that you access with a browser over http or https. Are there any alternative protocols or internet equivalents that are not well known and have an active community?
- mariusor 3y agoActive community, maybe not, but teletext[1] and minitel[2] come to mind. Maybe also WAP[3] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teletext https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teletext [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minitel https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minitel [3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wireless_Application_Protocol https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wireless_Application_Protocol
- MrVandemar 3y agoGemini was/is a big one from relatively recently. Don't see too many articles about it lately, possibly the traction it was getting is subsiding ...
- doctorshady 3y agoThis only works in the loosest of senses for an analog to HTTP - certainly the way they're used, but some BBSes have modem connectivity. https://www.telnetbbsguide.com/bbs/connection/dial-up/ https://www.telnetbbsguide.com/bbs/connection/dial-up/
- pestatije 3y agoamateur radio [4] and Tor browser. [4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_amateur_radio_modes https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_amateur_radio_modes
- hacknewslogin 3y agoBBS systems still exist: https://www.telnetbbsguide.com/ https://www.telnetbbsguide.com/
- DerekBickerton 3y agoThere's a few abstractions of the web you can use today. https://freenetproject.org/ https://freenetproject.org/ https://geti2p.net/en/ https://geti2p.net/en/ https://www.gnunet.org/en/ https://www.gnunet.org/en/ https://www.ipfs.tech/ https://www.ipfs.tech/